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The Effects of Time in Drug Abuse Treatment and Employment on Posttreatment Drug Use and Criminal Activity

 

作者: FrenchMichael T.,   ZarkinGary A.,   HubbardRobert L.,   RachalJ. Valley,  

 

期刊: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse  (Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期: Volume 19, issue 1  

页码: 19-33

 

ISSN:0095-2990

 

年代: 1993

 

DOI:10.3109/00952999309002663

 

出版商: Taylor&Francis

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

The impact of length of stay in drug abuse treatment on follow-up drug use and criminal behavior has important clinical and policy implications. In this paper we use longitudinal data from the Treatment Outcome Prospective Study to estimate the simultaneous effects of time in treatment and employment outcomes–weeks worked and total earnings–on post-treatment drug use and criminal activity. The drug use/criminal activity variables include four indexes measuring the severity of use, drug-related problems, predatory illegal acts, and overall criminal behavior. The results show that time in treatment had a negative and statistically significant impact on these outcome variables for every modality with residential clients experiencing the largest relative impact. The time-in-treatment effect was robust even when employment outcomes were modeled jointly with drug use and criminal activity outcomes. These findings highlight the importance of length of stay in treatment in the recovery and rehabilitation of drug abusers.

 

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